Kristin Sweedler
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Copper Collage
Steel Sculpture
Kristin Sweedler’s sculpture has been selected for inclusion in a wide variety of exhibitions and gallery shows across the United States. Her work can be found in public and private collections in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Her sculptures combine technical experience gained from her years of formal apprenticeship as a piano technician with an understanding and love of artistic expression acquired during traditional course work in art, an extensive amount of world travel, and many hours of private experimentation in the studio.
Kristin Sweedler’s work has attained recognition on numerous occasions.
Her copper masks received a first place award in the annual national "Maskibition"
competition in Eureka, California (1997). In 1998 her work was featured in
the Glenn Curtiss Museum’s Bicentennial Celebration in Hammondsport,
New York. In 2000 she was invited to display her work at the Artwise Sculpture
gallery and web site, a forum representing an international group of sculptors
and based in Sidney, Australia.
Ms. Sweedler studied sculpture at Cornell University under the auspices of
Jack Squire and Roberto Bertoia. She honed her craftsmanship as an apprentice
to the international Piano Technician’s Guild’s registered technicians,
Robert Barrett and Ken Walkup. Since moving to Annapolis she has attained
a certificate in design from Anne Arundel Community College. She has shown
in numerous juried shows, appearing most frequently at Gallery on the Circle
and the Maryland Hall for Creative Arts in Annapolis, MD, and at the Art Gallery
of Fells Point in Baltimore, MD.
Kristin Sweedler was born in Beaufort, South Carolina and has resided in Ithaca,
NY, New York City, and London. She currently lives in Annapolis, MD.
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